Jessup Team headed to International Rounds in Washington D.C.

March 08, 2013

On the weekend of March 1st, 2013 Denver Law’s Jessup Moot Court Team headed to Portland, Oregon to compete in the Pacific Regional Rounds of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. Now in its 54th year, the Philip C. Jessup moot is the world’s largest moot court competition, with participants from over 550 law schools worldwide. The competition is a fictional dispute between countries before the International Court of Justice, the judicial organ of the United Nations.

Denver law Jessup team members Brianna Evans, Wesley Fry, Victoria Kelley, William Kent and Morgan Robinson (Of Counsel) placed second overall in the Pacific Regional Competition, thus earning the opportunity to advance to the International Rounds which take place in Washington, D.C. on April 6, 2013. The team competed against teams from California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and Louisiana, and lost only in the final round against the team from University of California Hastings. 3L Brianna Evans won “Best Overall Oralist” and the team’s Memorials placed 5th overall.